4. Calling for life
Two of my high school classmates were killed in quick succession, and I was most likely the next one to be killed, so in this case, Sanliangzi had been completely squeezed out of my brain. I briefly told Bi Hongtao and Ning Ningning about my guesses, and told them not to be alone and not to go to places with few people, and then I drove directly to the city police station.
Tang Hui was not in the bureau when he went out to work, and it was Captain Lei Qishan Lei who received me. Although it was already past eight o'clock in the evening, Lei Qishan was also very busy, he arranged me in his office and asked me to wait for him, and it took him an hour and a half to go back and forth.
Without waiting for Lei Qishan to enter the house and sit down, I directly opened my mouth and told Lei Qishan about the before and after of the fat girl's car accident two years ago, as well as the inferences I made about the murderer.
Lei Qishan said that he didn't know the specific rules of the Three Kingdoms Kill, and he was a little confused, so I explained to him in detail the gameplay of the Three Kingdoms Kill, as well as the effect of the five attack cards. Zuihou: I also made a point to emphasize once again that the murderer was likely to kill eight people, including me.
After hearing this, Lei Qishan sat on the sofa and fell into deep thought.
After a full minute, he asked me again, "Do you believe there are ghosts on Shijie?" ”
This is definitely a question that I never expected. I was stunned for a moment, but then my whole body relaxed, half a year ago I absolutely thought that ghosts and all that were nonsense, but now I have classified them all within my ability.
"Believe!" I answered Lei Qishan truthfully: "Not only do I believe it, but I have also seen and exorcised ghosts with my own eyes!" I'm afraid you won't believe it. ”
Lei Qishan did not respond to me with his usual smile, but said to me with a serious face: "Like us, as criminal policemen, we always deal with homicide cases, and sometimes we even see dead people every day for a month, and we often encounter things that cannot be explained at all. ”
"I've heard Tang Hui say this, the kind of strange cases that can't be explained by common sense are called ghost crimes."
"Hmm." Lei Qishan nodded and said: "When I was young, I didn't believe in any ghost crimes, I think it was either a scam set up by the murderer, or I couldn't find the real murderer, so the police who handled the case found a step for themselves." Later, I experienced some strange things myself, and gradually began to believe in evil. Tang Hui mentioned to me a few cases you were involved in before, as well as the fact that you went to a rural area to save children when he was in the county bureau, and it seems that you have been with ...... several times."
"Do you want to say that the murder of my two classmates this time is also a ghost?" I skipped the topic of Lei Qishan directly and went straight back to the case in front of me.
Lei Qishan was stunned for a moment, and then immediately said: "From the perspective of the police, I will definitely deny this possibility!" But I'm not the kind of person who is stubborn, and if your method can save people or help me catch the murderer, then I naturally have no reason to reject it, just like you helped us solve the case a few times ago. I wonder if you'd like to help us? ”
"Of course it's no problem to assist, the police and the people! Then let's talk about it, why do you think there is a ghost in this case? ”
"We found a few witnesses, they saw the outline of the suspect, and the painter also painted a portrait according to their description, and the person who drew it was Yang Aili's daughter Hu Jing, who was the fat girl you said about in a car accident."
"Fat girl?!! Are you sure? I was skeptical.
"Look at the portrait." As he spoke, Lei Qishan handed six pieces of drawing paper in front of me.
The six paintings are three of the front face, one of the side faces, and two of which are the backs of the whole body. Two of the three positive faces are more finely drawn, and one is relatively simple, but no matter which one is the painting, my first reaction after reading it is: The person on the painting is a fat girl, absolutely can't be wrong!
But I didn't rush to conclusions, but asked Lei Qishan if it was possible that Fat Sister's sister or relative or something, because Qiao Wei said that ghosts can't kill people directly.
Lei Qishan shook his head at first, and then gave me a detailed account of the progress of the police investigation during the period from the killing of Zheng Yingjie to the murder of Liu Shuang, a large part of which Tang Hui did not tell me when we met in the morning.
On the night of Zheng's killing, the police found two male witnesses in the opposite building.
At the time of the crime, one of the two men was smoking on the balcony, and the other was peeping through binoculars in his room. According to the descriptions of these two men, at that time there stood a short, stocky, round woman in a big red coat and red boots, facing them with her back to the door, standing motionless, looking very strange.
A few minutes later, the security door of the opposite building opened, and a thin guy peeked out of it, but then he shouted and turned his head and ran back, and the short and fat woman followed the building. After another two minutes or so, the stocky woman came out of the building and turned onto the main road.
That skinny guy was Zheng Yingjie who was killed.
The voyeur man's behavior must have been criticized and warned by the police, but thanks to his use of binoculars and the fact that the street lights in the community were bright enough, he could see the appearance of the puppy woman very clearly, and the portrait drawn according to his description was also the most detailed.
Although the man who smoked on the balcony only saw the silhouette of the woman, he provided an extremely important clue in the timeline, which also provided a basis for the police's next action.
The smoking man's house has an old-fashioned wall clock that rings on the hour every day. At nine o'clock that night, the wall clock rang nine as usual, and the smoking man clearly remembered that the wall clock was still ringing when the short and fat woman chased Zheng Yingjie into the building.
Here's the problem! Zheng Yingjie made a phone call to Liu Shuang at one o'clock after nine o'clock, and the call lasted nearly a minute and a half.
The police compared the time of Zheng Yingjie's mobile phone with the wall clock in the smoking man's house, and the difference between the two was only 13 seconds. And both witnesses can confirm that the short and fat woman stayed in the building for about two minutes, so the police suspect that it was the short and fat woman who threatened Zheng Yingjie to make that inexplicable phone call to Liu Shuang before starting to kill.
In the next two days, the police searched for the person in the portrait on the one hand, and on the other hand, they also went to Liu Shuang to try to unravel the intention of the mysterious phone call. It's a pity that Liu Shuang didn't mean to cooperate at all, so Tang Hui suggested to Lei Qishan that I help, and it just so happened that I also took the initiative to come to the door at this time.
According to the clues I provided, Tang Hui went to Yang Aili's house to investigate, and it was at Yang Aili's house that Tang Hui saw Hu Jing's photo! The person in the photo is exactly the same as the short and fat woman in the portrait! However, subsequent investigations revealed that Hu Jing did not have any sisters and no relatives who looked similar.
After Liu Shuang was killed today, the police also found witnesses at the scene.
Witnesses said they saw a short and fat woman enter the beverage wholesale store, and according to the eyewitness's description, it was Liu Shuang who opened the door for the short and fat woman, and after opening the door, Liu Shuang seemed to be very scared, and then turned around and ran into the store, and the short and fat woman also chased in. Also two minutes or so later, the stocky woman walked out of the shop.
The police showed the portrait to the witness, who determined that it was the woman in the portrait who entered the store.
In addition, Liu Shuang also used his mobile phone before he died, but he did not call, but sent a voice WeChat, and the content of WeChat is still the repeated "Three Kingdoms Killing"!